Birdwatching, Johan Lindén
This page is being updated every now and then (latest update
Dec. 2001)
I've been a more or less active bird watcher since appr. 1980.
I live in Turku in the sout-west corner of Finland. During 1999-2000
I lived in Yokohama and Tokyo for a year.
Spots I visited in Tokyo with
surroundings were:
Mouth of Tama river, Oi park, Jike Furusatomura, Meiji park,
Yatsu-higata mudflat etc. Around
Turku my favourite
spots are
Halikonlahti in Salo,
Åvik in Turku,
Ruissalo and a few other places.
Photos
Here is a couple of photos I've taken during the years:
1. Barn swallow 81k
2. Pygmy owl 82k
Both pictures taken with a 600 mm f8 Sigma tele lens. The Barn swallow
(Hirundo rustica) picture was taken in Reifel Is. (Vancouver BC) in Aug. 1993.
Note the pink-colored under parts differing it from the eurasian race. The
pygmy owl (Glaucidium passerinum) picture was taken on the 16th of Feb. 1997
in Ruissalo, Turku.
3. Juvenile Robin 104k
4. Rufous sided towhee 108k
The picture of the juv. eurasian robin (Erithacus rubecula) was taken
in July 1982 with a 200 mm f4.5 Cosinon tele lens in Sjundeå. The rufous
sided towhee was taken in Aug. 1993 on the UBC campus (Vancouver BC) with
a 600 mm Sigma lens.
5. Laughin gull 125k
6. Puffin 91k
7. Dusky thrush
62k
The picture of the Laughin gull (Larus atricilla) was taken
in July 1997 with a 600 mm f8 Sigma lens on Kimito island, Finland.
The picture of the puffin (Fratercula arctica) was shot in Vik,
Iceland in june 1991, using
the Sigma lens. The picture of the dusky (Naumann's) thrush (of race Turdus naumanni naumanni),
was shot in Lauttasaari, Helsinki in Nov. 1994, using the 200 mm lens.
Japanese birds, click here
Finnish birds, click here
North American birds, click here
Other pictures, click here
List of my japanese lifers, click here